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Library Science

Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Library Science"

Cher connard
Brat
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
The Last Sane Woman
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
The Library: A Fragile History
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
The Wickedest
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory
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Library Science Books

Foundations of Library and Information Science
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
Library: An Unquiet History
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
Library and Information Center Management
Developing Library and Information Center Collections
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
The Library Book
Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
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The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarian... by Karen P. NicholsonEthical Questions in Name Authority Control by Jane SandbergQuestioning Library Neutrality by Alison LewisThe Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South by Wayne A. WiegandFeminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi
MLIS / Librarianship / Library Science
29 books — 1 voter
The Archive and the Repertoire by Diana TaylorAlong the Archival Grain by Ann Laura StolerThe Joy of Cataloging by Sanford BermanPrejudices and Antipathies by Sanford BermanThe Archival Turn in Feminism by Kate Eichhorn
On Archiving, Cataloging, and Information Science
18 books — 2 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Library Science”

Josh Hanagarne
“ I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live. ...more ”
― Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
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S.E. Harmon
“ In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History. ”
― S.E. Harmon, Stay with Me
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Groups Tagged "Library Science"

Underground Knowledge — A discussion group This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
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MPL Staff Reading Group A different version of a reading group started a million years ago. What we're reading, book dis…more
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San José State University students of Library and Information Sciences meet to share and discuss…more
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Readers' Advisory for Library Staff For when someone asks you about a book they can't remember the title of, you're trying to find a…more
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